Kabezi is a town in Bujumbura Rural Province in Burundi.

Kabezi
Town
Kabezi is located in Burundi
Kabezi
Kabezi
Coordinates: 3°32′12″S 29°20′55″E / 3.5368°S 29.34848°E / -3.5368; 29.34848
Country Burundi
ProvinceBujumbura Rural Province
CommuneCommune of Kabezi
Time zoneUTC+2 (Central Africa Time)

Kabezi is in the Commune of Kabezi, just east of the RN 3 highway, which runs south from Bujumbura along the shore of Lake Tanganyika. It contains the Kabezi Hospital.[1]

Rainbow Mining Burundi's rare earth ore processing plant was built in 2018 near the town of Kabezi between Lake Tanganyika to the west and the RN3 road to the east.[2] The Kabezi plant did crushing and gravity separation.[3] In August 2021 Rainbow Rare Earths announced that almost all staff had been placed on suspension.[4]

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  • Gakara Rare Earth Project, NS Energy, 20 October 2020, retrieved 2024-09-23
  • "Node: Kabezi (1673541099)", OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2024-08-12
  • "Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Announces Update on Trial Mining Operations from the Gakara Project in Burundi", Market Screener, 5 August 2021, retrieved 2024-09-24
  • Reichhardt, Friedrich; Witley, Jeremy; Hudson, Jonathan (4 June 2019), Rainbow Rare Earths Limited Gakara REE Project Burundi (PDF), The MSA Group (Pty) Ltd, retrieved 2024-09-23